The study compared the three personality types delineated by Burger and Cross by obverse factor analysis with those disclosed by an average linkage cluster analytic technique. The data were from three subsamples of 85 men who completed the California Psychological Inventory for Burger and Cross. The standard score profiles within each sample were intercorrelated and then cluster analyzed. Four profile types were replicated across the three subsamples. Two of the types, labeled antisocial and well-adjusted, corresponded fairly closely to the Burger-Cross types. There were differences in the number of types generated, in the proportion of individuals classified, and in the profile shapes.
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